{"id":594,"date":"2006-06-21T16:21:57","date_gmt":"2006-06-21T16:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=594"},"modified":"2006-06-21T16:21:57","modified_gmt":"2006-06-21T16:21:57","slug":"another_way_of_wasting_my_life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2006\/06\/21\/another_way_of_wasting_my_life\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Way of Wasting My Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh, boy… this is bad. That dang Scalzi<\/a> has just pointed<\/a> me to a time-sink of unbelievable proportions: it’s an online repository of old ’80s-vintage music videos<\/a>. Hundreds of them, enough to waste hours and hours looking at hair styles that, for some inexplicable reason, us thirtysomethings used to think were pretty cool.<\/p>\n


\nThe available material is somewhat eccentric in scope, seeming to consist mostly of B-sides. For example, instead of offering Sammy Hagar’s “I Can’t Drive 55,” the Hagar song that people actually remember, this site features his lesser-known follow-up, “VOA<\/a>.” Or, for those of you who wouldn’t know Sammy Hagar from Sammy Sosa, here’s another example: Spandau Ballet is represented by “Gold<\/a>” instead of “True.”<\/p>\n

However, a site full of videos that you almost<\/i> remember means that you can have the joy of rediscovering the stuff that doesn’t get any airplay on the nostalgia stations anymore, such as Dwight Twilley’s infectious “Girls<\/a>,” the hair-a-licious power ballad “Call to Your Heart<\/a>” by Giuffria (there’s a band everyone remembers, no doubt because of the totally wicked one-guy-playing-two-keyboards-at-once schtick), Scandal’s “Goodbye to You<\/a>,” and The Hooters’ “And We Danced<\/a>,” one of my all-time favorite pop tunes.<\/p>\n

For the geeks among us, there’s the novelty song “Doctorin’ The TARDIS<\/a>” by The Time Lords\/KL. And here is an MTV classic, Every Breath You Take<\/a>” by The Police, which, with its gorgeous black-and-white, film-noir-inspired imagery, is perhaps the greatest video ever made about unrequited love<\/span> obsessive stalking.<\/p>\n

Yes, I’m going to burn up lots of bandwidth looking at this stuff. I’m already wallowing in the heady vapors of nostalgia, remembering how I used to sit up until the wee hours of the morning watching Friday Night Videos<\/i><\/a> in a dark room with a big Tupperware bowl of popcorn in my lap, and dreams of big-haired vamps running through my… well, I had dreams about girls. And guitars. And having lots and lots of hair. (I still have those, come to think of it.)<\/p>\n

Ah, those were the days…<\/p>\n

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Oh, boy… this is bad. That dang Scalzi has just pointed me to a time-sink of unbelievable proportions: it’s an online repository of old ’80s-vintage music videos. Hundreds of them, enough to waste hours and hours looking at hair styles that, for some inexplicable reason, us thirtysomethings used to think were pretty cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-and-pop-culture","category-the-glass-teat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}